> There is a prevailing mentality that LLMs make it easy to become productive in new languages, if you are already proficient in one.
Yes, and: I've found this to be mostly true, if you make sure you take the time to deeply understand what the code is doing. When I asked an LLM to do something for me in Javascript, then I said, "What if X happens, wouldn't that cause Y? Would it be better to restructure it like so and so to make it more robust?" The LLM immediately improves it.
Any experienced programmer who was taking the time to review this code, on learning that unwrap() has a "panic" inside, would certainly change it. But as you say, reviewers are already stretched thin.
Yes, and: I've found this to be mostly true, if you make sure you take the time to deeply understand what the code is doing. When I asked an LLM to do something for me in Javascript, then I said, "What if X happens, wouldn't that cause Y? Would it be better to restructure it like so and so to make it more robust?" The LLM immediately improves it.
Any experienced programmer who was taking the time to review this code, on learning that unwrap() has a "panic" inside, would certainly change it. But as you say, reviewers are already stretched thin.